June 8, 2002
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STANFORD
Stanford's six-player senior class of Scott Dragicevich, Chris O'Riordan, Dan Rich, Andy Topham, Arik VanZandt and J.D. Willcox have become the first class of Stanford players to ever qualify for the College World Series in all four of its seasons Stanford remains unbeaten in the post-season this year, improving to 5-0 Stanford will enter the College World Series unbeaten in postseason play for the seventh time in school history Stanford will be making its 14th appearance in the College World Series, winning two CWS titles (1987, 1988) and finishing as CWS runners-up in the last two years in 2000 and 2001 Stanford remains unbeaten in Super Regional series, improving to 4-0 since the format's implementation in 1999 Stanford improves to 8-2 all-time in Super Regional games Stanford extends its season-high win streak to nine games Stanford improves to 101-49 all-time in postseason action Stanford wins for the seventh time in eight games against USC this season Stanford improves to 4-0 all-time versus USC in Super Regional games Stanford improves to 29-4 at home this season Stanford improves to 11-3 against ranked teams this season Stanford improves to a perfect 38-0 when leading after eight innings this season Tim Cunningham improves to 21-4 (.850) in his career, moving into a sixth-place tie on Stanford's all-time won-loss percentage list Tim Cunningham wins his fifth straight outing, improving to 10-2 with a 3.82 ERA on the season Tim Cunningham improves to 3-1 all-time in the postseason Scott Dragicevich tied a career-high and set a season-high with four hits, extending his season-high-tying hit streak to nine games Dan Rich recorded his third save of the 2002 postseason, his second save in the Super Regional and his fourth career postseason save by coming on with two outs and the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning and recording the final four outs. Carlos Quentin moves into a tie for the team lead in RBI with 53 after an RBI double in the top of the fourth inning Chris O'Riordan extends his consecutive games started streak to 172 All four of Stanford's runs in the top of the sixth inning were unearned and came after there were two outs and no runners on base
USC
Alberto Concepcion and Joey Metropolous combined to go 0-15 in the series. Stanford has defeated USC in 12 of its last 14 meetings dating back to 1999.